The Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. House.
The Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- sacred-gallery-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Rectory, West Wickham Road, Horseheath
- OS grid reference
- TL 613 473
- Coordinates
- 52.10117, 0.35402
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Rectory is a house located on West Wickham Road, primarily dating from the 17th century but remodeled in the early 18th century. The building features a timber-framed structure that is plaster rendered, with red brick axial ridge stacks. It has a straight range with a small projection at the east end on the south side and at the west end on the back. The house is two storeys high with attics, featuring three dormers that replace the original ones and four casement windows on the first floor. There are two windows on either side of the baffle entry doorway. Inside, broad chamfer stops on the main beam and substantial studwork suggest a possible 15th-century date or the reuse of earlier materials.
Local climate
The Old Rectory sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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